US Plant Patent PP6948
Fontana
Chrysanthemum plant named Fontana
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 14, 2008. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP6948
- Filed
- July 14, 1988
- Granted
- July 25, 1989
- Expires
- July 14, 2008
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Fontana particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; spooned decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 15 cm at maturity when grown as a pinched disbudded pot mum; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; short plant height when grown as a pinched pot mum; recommended as disbudded pot mum; spreading and prolific branching pattern.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant named Fontana, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6948 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.